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monsoon 音标拼音: [mɑns'un] n. 季节风,吹季节风的季节,雨季 季节风,吹季节风的季节,雨季 monsoon n 1: a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest ( bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter 2: rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains 3: any wind that changes direction with the seasonsmonsoon \ mon* soon"\ ( m[ o^] n* s[= oo] n"), n. [ Malay m[= u] sim, fr. Ar. mausim a time, season: cf. F. monson, mousson, Sr. monzon, Pg. mon[, c][~ a] o, It. monsone.] A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A heavy rainfall in India associated with the southwest monsoon[ 1]. [ PJC] 3. The season in which the monsoon[ 2] occurs. [ PJC] 38 Moby Thesaurus words for " monsoon": air current, cat- and- dog weather, crosscurrent, current, current of air, dirty weather, downdraft, draft, fall wind, flow of air, following wind, head wind, indraft, inflow, inhalation, inrush, inspiration, jetstream, katabatic wind, movement of air, predominance of Aquarius, raininess, rains, rainy day, rainy season, rainy weather, spell of rain, spring rains, stormy weather, stream, stream of air, tail wind, undercurrent, updraft, wet, wet season, wet weather, wind
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